RockyLinux 9 : mariadb:11.8 (RLSA-2026:33481)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 325274

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:33481 advisory.

* mariadb: MariaDB Server: Arbitrary code execution via wsrep_notify_cmd (CVE-2026-49261)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* [Rocky Linux9] [tracker] Rebase Galera to 26.4.27 MariaDB:11.8 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-140364)

* Rebase MariaDB 11.8 to 11.8.8 in Rocky Linux9 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-183085)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487957

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488450

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488451

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488453

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488454

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488458

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488459

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488460

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488467

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:33481

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 325274

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-33481.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 7/6/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-49261

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44172

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-pam-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-backup-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-pam, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:galera-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-test-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-embedded-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-gssapi-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-client-utils, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:galera-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:galera, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-server-galera-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mariadb-gssapi-server

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44168, CVE-2026-44169, CVE-2026-44170, CVE-2026-44171, CVE-2026-44172, CVE-2026-44173, CVE-2026-48163, CVE-2026-48165, CVE-2026-49261